LeRoy Gordon's life reads like no one would believe — Cabrini Green housing projects to Walter Payton High School, college athlete to police officer, pro wrestler on Canadian and international tours to yoga teacher and men's circle facilitator. In this conversation, LeRoy opens up about growing up without a present father, enduring physical and emotional abuse, and the core wound of needing to be seen that drove everything from his athletic pursuits to his relationship patterns.

Bio

LeRoy Gordon is a fitness coach, yoga instructor, and men's group facilitator in the city of Chicago. After over six years of working the professional wrestling circuits of the US and Canada, LeRoy shifted his focused from his physical pursuits to healing his heart and mind with the help of men's work and plant medicine. He has led men's circles for nearly five years. He hopes to guide and inspire men to be the most open hearted and authentic versions of themselves so that they may continue the work of reducing harm and helping our communities thrive.

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: /royflashgordon

Special Guest: LeRoy Gordon.

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In this episode, I sit down with Wendy Perkins Schoef — ADHD coach, microdosing guide, and neuro pleasure coach who specializes in working with solo entrepreneurs. Wendy shares her remarkable origin story: raised by a single Catholic mom in LA, navigating an ADHD brain through college and careers spanning real estate, biometrics, and web development, before finding her true calling after a divorce sent her on a journey of sexual self-discovery and eventually into orgasm coaching and nervous system work. We dig deep into her holistic framework of Goal, Set, Setting, and Intention — the foundation she uses whether she's helping a client build their business, choose a microdosing protocol, or regulate their nervous system. We talk about the differences between psilocybin and LSD as microdosing tools, why LSD is a "non-specific amplifier," and how the right substance choice depends entirely on what's going on in your body, mind, and environment. We also get into the profound connection between sexual energy and creative energy, the jaw-pelvic floor link, yoni dearmouring, the stigma around prostate work for men, and harm reduction resources for those exploring psychedelics. Wendy also opens up about parenting her son Max, who was born with a brain injury, and how that experience has deepened her understanding of the nervous system and shaped her approach to her work.

About Wendy

Wendy is an ADHD microdosing and neuro-pleasure coach, researcher, and co-host of the Psychedelic Revelations podcast.

She works with brilliant, creative, capable people who are also a little bit fried—navigating chronic stress, ADHD, burnout, or all of the above. The ones who’ve read the books, tried the supplements, made the to-do lists, and yet still feel tired but wired, overthinking everything, spinning in place while their responsibilities grow by the hour.

Wendy’s approach is rooted in a core belief: your nervous system is sacred, pleasure is a birthright, and ADHD symptoms are signs of a dysregulated nervous system—not a broken brain. Through microdosing support, nervous system regulation, embodied practices, and a BIG helping of tech support, she helps people remember their own divine intelligence and step back into who they truly are so they can make the impact in the world they’re meant to do.

Her work blends research, lived experience, and a deep reverence for the body’s wisdom to support transformation that actually lasts.

Website: https://thesuccessdoula.com

Special Guest: Wendy Perkins Shoef.

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Karen Kubicko grew up steeped in Catholic school traditions — but something always felt bigger just beneath the surface. In 11th grade, on her first day at a new public school, she heard a voice tell her she'd had a past life with a complete stranger in the hallway. She dismissed it. Decades later, that moment makes perfect sense.

How past life regression works and what a session with Karen actually looks like

Karen and I also connect the dots between indigenous wisdom traditions, empathic experience, and the growing global awakening — weaving in references to Paul Selig, Bashar/Darryl Anka, and the power of trusting what you receive, even when it first shows up as a horse and buggy in your living room.

About Karen

Karen Kubicko is a past life hypnotherapist, and intuitive psychic reader passionate about teaching and helping others heal through working with their spirit guides, angels, and healing the patterns found in their own past lives. She is the author of: Life Is Just Another Class—One Soul’s Journey through Past Life Regression, an account of 16 of her own past lives and Making True Love—Healing Relationship Patterns Through Past Life Regression which explores common root causes of relationship issues, plus provides insight on how to heal these patterns so you can find true love.

Connect with Karen

Email: [email protected]

For more on Karen Kubicko, please visit: https://www.karenkubicko.com/about-karen/

Special Guest: Karen Kubicko.

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In this episode, I sit down with Pascale Falempin—former professional dancer, Pilates instructor, and breathwork facilitator—to explore the path of embodiment from a deeply lived perspective.

Pascale can be found on Instagram - @powerhousepascale

Special Guest: Pascale Falempin.

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In S2•E3, I speak with Christopher Sunyata, a former medical device engineer turned Buddhist meditation teacher and men’s coach based in Boulder, Colorado . We met at an Osho-inspired Deer Tribe workshop in Cave Creek, Arizona—an intensive container exploring sacred sexuality and polarity work .

Christopher shares his origin story:

We explore how women’s somatic intuition became one of his greatest teachers—how feminine bodies read tension, contraction, and presence instantly .

We discuss:

Christopher’s central thesis:

A man’s depth is revealed in how much intensity he can open through—without collapsing, grasping, or dissociating .

We also explore how shame around sexuality has been weaponized socially and spiritually—and what happens when that shame is removed.

This conversation bridges:

It’s an unapologetically honest conversation about embodied masculinity in a time when many men feel disconnected from purpose and presence.

Special Guest: Christopher Sunyata.

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In this episode, I sit down with Deb Servetnick. "Grateful Deb" is a life mastery coach, psychedelic guide, bodyworker, and founder of Serve Medicine. Join us for an expansive, unscripted exploration of healing.

We begin with her origin story as a lifelong Deadhead and early psychedelic explorer, then move into the deeper terrain: her MAPS training, her decision to remain aligned with decriminalization over legalization, and her critique of over-medicalizing sacred medicine.

Deb shares why preparation matters more than the “six great hours,” how vibrational alignment shapes outcomes, and why psilocybin remains her preferred medicine for whole-body healing. We talk about grief, cancer, nervous system regulation, subconscious patterning, and the importance of replacing, not just removing, habits.

The conversation turns personal as we explore sugar, distraction, cannabis, and the difference between trying to “beat” something versus learning to love it into transformation.

This episode is about frequency. It’s about asking for what you actually want. And it’s about remembering that the universe is already responding.

Special Guest: Deborah Servetnick.

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Dr. Jodie NewDelman shares her evolution from a hard-science neuropsychology background at UCLA studying autism genetics to embracing a more integrated biopsychosocial-spiritual model of care. We examine:

This episode invites listeners to examine whether their current healing path is addressing root causes — or merely suppressing symptoms.

Dr. NewDelman's website is https://essensuate.com

Special Guest: Dr. Jodie NewDelman.

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This season-one finale of The Permission Slip is a deeply honest, unsanitized conversation between me and my former wife, Amy Anesi. We were married for 15 years, raised two daughters together, divorced after an affair, endured bankruptcy and foreclosure in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse—and then chose a different path forward.

Instead of turning divorce into a lifelong war story, we explore what it looks like to take responsibility, metabolize pain, and consciously evolve beyond blame. This episode challenges the dominant cultural narrative that divorce must be ugly, adversarial, and permanently scarring. It doesn’t.

With Amy as both witness and mirror, I share my own arc—from childhood conditioning and emotional repression, through infidelity, trauma, and collapse, into somatic healing, psychedelic therapy, nervous-system work, and spiritual awakening. What emerges is not a story of redemption, but of integration.

This is a conversation about accountability without self-flagellation, healing without spiritual bypass, and what becomes possible when two people choose growth over grievance—for themselves and for their children.

Special Guest: Amy Anesi.

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I discovered the channeled work of Paul Selig and his "Guides" (whom have called themselves "Melchizedek") in late summer of 2020. I had fortunately been "softened" up considerably with psychedelic work including Psilocybin, MDMA, Ayahuasca and Mescaline in addition to some deep myofascial work by that point in my healing journey. A friend shared a link to a YouTube video and it was as if a tractor beam took hold of me. I was mesmerized and, after checking their stock online, was on my way to a bookstore 30 minutes away where I purchased three books.

This work is one of the three pillars of my transformation - up there with psychedelics and somatic work. And it may not resonate with you. It was one of the clearest example of "When the student is ready, the teacher appears" I've experienced. Others have told similar stories.

In this episode of The Permission Slip, I sit down with Paul Selig for a conversation about consciousness, channeling, and what it means to live in alignment with a higher order of truth while fully embodied as a human being.

Paul shares his personal origin story — from an accomplished academic life to an unexpected spiritual awakening that opened him to hearing and working with the Guides. We explore how his abilities unfolded gradually, the role discipline and integrity played in stabilizing the work, and why true channeling is less about being “special” and more about becoming transparent to something greater.

We move into the core teachings brought through the Guides: the nature of divine union, the Christ as a universal principle rather than a historical figure, and humanity’s current reckoning with fear, separation, and self-denial. We also discuss discernment in spiritual work, the difference between inspiration and channeling, free will, presence, and how awakening does not bypass the human experience — it transforms how we meet it.

This conversation is not about belief systems or spiritual bypassing. It’s about lived experience, embodiment, and the practical integration of higher consciousness into daily life.

Paul's website is https://paulselig.com

Special Guest: Paul Selig.

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The irony of the fact that it took me 16 episodes to get to somebody who works with psychedelic medicines is not lost on me. Psychedelics (all of them) have been instrumental in my healing process. As somebody who hasn't had an alcoholic drink since 2001 and hadn't smoked weed since 1995, dipping my toe in the psychedelic waters was not a decision I undertook lightly. It was a short journey from the dip to the plunge, however.

I'm very grateful to Lisa for agreeing to be on the show and to share the beautiful potential these medicines have for fostering healing and connection. The fact that they are Schedule I narcotics is criminal in and of itself.

In this episode, I talk with Lisa Parker about her journey from chronic trauma and unexplained pain into becoming a practitioner of psychedelic-integrative bodywork. Lisa shares how early experiences of fear, dissociation, and bodily threat shaped her nervous system—and how modalities like Rolfing and other somatic work, especially in tandem with medicines such as Ayahuasca, Psilocybin and Kambo helped her reclaim safety in her body.

In themes that are common across most episodes, we explore how trauma lives in fascia, why chronic pain often has emotional and energetic roots, and how combining low-dose psychedelic medicine with hands-on bodywork can accelerate healing in a safe, grounded way. This conversation moves through nervous system regulation, consent, embodied boundaries, touches briefly on Human Design, and the difference between catharsis and integration.

This episode is an invitation to understand healing not as fixing what’s broken, but as remembering how the body already knows how to come home to itself.

Special Guest: Lisa Parker.

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Links:

• Lisa Parker's Website